Are you talking about the book or the movie? Win-chan talked about the book, but I dunno about you. XD I don't want to shame non-book readers, but Peeta is really flat in the movie so then I can understand. In the book, he's charismatic, Katniss is socially awkward and good with words, so Peeta does it for her. His way of surviving in the games is getting the people to like him. He's also an excellent painter and a bakerguy. I don't understand when book-readers don't like Peeta. :c
I think Gale is the one who's flat actually. XD To me he was kind of like a male Katniss, the third book however expanded on their differences.
Well, you're about to find out why people don't like Peeta
Hmm, I'm not sure who I disliked more, book Peeta of movie Peeta... The biggest problem I have with Peeta is that he's a completely incompetent oaf who always tries to help but he actually just ends up getting in the way. Take Catching Fire, for example. Mags died to save Peeta. The morphlings died to save Peeta. He was so incompetent that people had to throw their lives away to save that loser, and yet he seems to be completely oblivious to this fact and won't trust anyone else to help Katniss. The reason he volunteered in book 2 was not to save Haymitch. It was because he somehow thought it was possible for him to help Katniss out in the ring more than anything Haymitch could do, which is just idiotic. First off, Haymitch is a billion times more useful than Peeta is. Second, Katniss would be better off not having to worry about that idiot and constantly having to try to save him. Like in the first book, when they're sneaking around? Peeta keeps on stepping on branches and snapping them and almost kills himself eating poisonous berries. Third, he ACTUALLY THINKS HE CAN HELP HER. It's so arrogant, I think. She's strong and always ends up saving his sorry butt, yet he's always like, "I need to save you Katniss because I don't trust you to save yourself."
Ugh. Just ugh.
Don't get me started on Peen - I mean, Kapeeta (yeah. Their ship name is crap o.o Though Ganiss isn't much better, lol). Boring, disturbing, and shudder-worthy. I don't even know how it developed. In the first book, Katniss is all, "I hate Peeta but I'm gonna kiss him to get people to like me, oh, and I actually do kinda care about him, but I still kinda hate him, and it's gross to kiss him. Yeah, Peeta, it was all an act." I don't even know when the switch to actually romantically caring about him happened. Like, in book two she was like, "I choose you Gale," and then by the end she's like, "Peeta!!" Yick. I'm not even going to go into why Gale and Katniss is SUCH a better ship (IMO). I hate Peeta not even taking into account him getting in the way of Gale and Katniss. But take that into account, and my hatred for him is naturally multiplied.
I ship Finnick/Katniss more than Peeta/Katniss. Anyway, sorry, sorry, don't mean to be such a hater, I just can NOT stand Peeta. It's cool if you like him, but he will remain, alongside Kaname Kuran from Vampire Knight, as one of my most hated characters ever.
Yes. I hate him that much. I just can't even.
(Sorry...)
Edited by Win-chan, 12 August 2014 - 05:05 PM.